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• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  and investments): Quite simply, I think that the Institute needs to do a ... , we are not confident the school will be able to do so without a ... ’s opening for a teach-in and rally because we know MIT can do better. At the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  (21A.819). and i'm excited to meet the 2020s! what are you all doing ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... and back to satisfy a late-night ginger soda craving actually, finally

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT ... the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  . "He's a smart man, smart and honest and a guy I think who will do an ... one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  the board, people have been a little hosed here the last week and a half ... . WHY DID I COME TO THIS SCHOOL.”), and with classes wrapping up today, a ... Caf√© 4 yesterday: Me: Hey, how are you doing? May '11 (grinning): Hiii

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We ... students now have a whole bunch of stuff on their MyMIT portal, including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle. Now at first, I was a little confused. I didn't know if this was a minivan or a sports utility vehicle. It was a strange hybrid of sorts, but

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... "Sunshowers" by M.I.A. "I bongo with my lingo and I beat it like a wing, yo" 3 ... toe violently crushed by a small Jewish frisbee enthusiast two months

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a ... only problems I can write without special characters). A1. Basketball

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  , partially because Nick had a history of doing such cool things, we had ... understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  ” (2006). It has nothing to do with objectivity and a lot to do with ... neutrality in that it assures that broadband providers do not hold a monopoly ... team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... took a lighter academic load, two classes, so that I could work an ... vestiges of 1900s industrial Cambridge. The image is vivid: a placid fall

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was a fresh experience that I really needed. I remember seeing the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  football mascot by their weight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obtRtrk42a8 ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... available about their physical measurements. I decided a phylogenetic tree

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  grappling with serious personal issues, to go do a favor for the hot athlete ... . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... would need to do it in a satisfying way.. ..which is okay! Because ... focus, work hard, and do amazingly well? But then maybe you feel compelled

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  , unlike Spyfall, so there’s never a second where you’re not doing anything ... Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019